How bizarre, how bizarre.
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The longest word in the English language is pnuemonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. It's 45 letters long and, if I remember correctly, is a lung condition brought on by inhaling volcanic ash.
The Paeomnnehal Pweor of the Hmuan Mnid.
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch, it deons't mttaer in waht oderr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny ipmrmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can slitl raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by itslef, but the wrod as a whloe.
A pound of feathers is actually heavier than a pound of gold.
Feathers are measured in avoirdupois weight (16oz per pound) while gold is measured in Troy weight (12oz per pound).
The Oktoberfest in Munich starts in September.
Most wines don't improve with age.
Coffee doesn't sober you up. In fact, since the breakdown of alcohol by liver alcohol dehydrogenase is a zeroth order reaction, there's nothing you can do to speed up the sobering process.
The Paeomnnehal Pweor of the Hmuan Mnid.
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch, it deons't mttaer in waht oderr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny ipmrmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can slitl raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by itslef, but the wrod as a whloe.
A pound of feathers is actually heavier than a pound of gold.
Feathers are measured in avoirdupois weight (16oz per pound) while gold is measured in Troy weight (12oz per pound).
The Oktoberfest in Munich starts in September.
Most wines don't improve with age.
Coffee doesn't sober you up. In fact, since the breakdown of alcohol by liver alcohol dehydrogenase is a zeroth order reaction, there's nothing you can do to speed up the sobering process.
Sound != air pressure disturbances. If a tree falls in a forest, and there is no-one there to hear it, it causes the air around it to vibrate, but air vibrating is not sound. Sound is the name of the perception of sound waves, not the name of the waves themselves (that's why they're called sound waves and not simply sound).LooK iTz Jinjo said:
The reason for this distinction is that different species (and, indeed, different individuals) have different thresholds of hearing, so a vibration that is "sound" to one person or species is imperceptible to another. An oscillation at 19kHz is sound to a dog, but silence to a human.
And you're wrong: if a (fully or partially) deaf person can't hear a sound, the sound isn't there - but the sound wave is.
In the context of the term "sound wave", the "sound" part simply means "of such frequency and amplitude as to be perceptible". Perception is subjective. Waves in the ocean could also be sound waves, if your hearing can detect frequencies that low.
Don't worry, nobody in existance has ever seen a flying earwig, which is odd, because their wings are totally functionallwm3398 said:
"What happens if you give an elephant LSD? On Friday August 3, 1962, a group of Oklahoma City researchers decided to find out.
Warren Thomas, Director of the City Zoo, fired a cartridge-syringe containing 297 milligrams of LSD into Tusko the Elephant's rump. With Thomas were two scientific colleagues from the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine, Louis Jolyon West and Chester M. Pierce.
297 milligrams is a lot of LSD ? about 3000 times the level of a typical human dose. In fact, it remains the largest dose of LSD ever given to a living creature. The researchers figured that, if they were going to give an elephant LSD, they better not give him too little.
Thomas, West, and Pierce later explained that the experiment was designed to find out if LSD would induce musth in an elephant ? musth being a kind of temporary madness male elephants sometimes experience during which they become highly aggressive and secrete a sticky fluid from their temporal glands. But one suspects a small element of ghoulish curiosity might also have been involved.
Whatever the reason for the experiment, it almost immediately went awry. Tusko reacted to the shot as if a bee had stung him. He trumpeted around his pen for a few minutes, and then keeled over on his side. Horrified, the researchers tried to revive him, but about an hour later he was dead. The three scientists sheepishly concluded that, "It appears that the elephant is highly sensitive to the effects of LSD."
In the years that followed controversy lingered over whether it was the LSD that killed Tusko, or the drugs used to revive him. So twenty years later, Ronald Siegel of UCLA decided to settle the debate by giving two elephants a dose similar to what Tusko received. Reportedly he had to sign an agreement promising to replace the animals in the event of their deaths.
Instead of injecting the elephants with LSD, Siegel mixed the drug into their water, and when it was administered in this way, the elephants not only survived but didn't seem too upset at all. They acted sluggish, rocked back and forth, and made some strange vocalizations such as chirping and squeaking, but within a few hours they were back to normal. However, Siegel noted that the dosage Tusko received may have exceeded some threshold of toxicity, so he couldn't rule out that LSD was the cause of his death. The controversy continues."
...Weird
Warren Thomas, Director of the City Zoo, fired a cartridge-syringe containing 297 milligrams of LSD into Tusko the Elephant's rump. With Thomas were two scientific colleagues from the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine, Louis Jolyon West and Chester M. Pierce.
297 milligrams is a lot of LSD ? about 3000 times the level of a typical human dose. In fact, it remains the largest dose of LSD ever given to a living creature. The researchers figured that, if they were going to give an elephant LSD, they better not give him too little.
Thomas, West, and Pierce later explained that the experiment was designed to find out if LSD would induce musth in an elephant ? musth being a kind of temporary madness male elephants sometimes experience during which they become highly aggressive and secrete a sticky fluid from their temporal glands. But one suspects a small element of ghoulish curiosity might also have been involved.
Whatever the reason for the experiment, it almost immediately went awry. Tusko reacted to the shot as if a bee had stung him. He trumpeted around his pen for a few minutes, and then keeled over on his side. Horrified, the researchers tried to revive him, but about an hour later he was dead. The three scientists sheepishly concluded that, "It appears that the elephant is highly sensitive to the effects of LSD."
In the years that followed controversy lingered over whether it was the LSD that killed Tusko, or the drugs used to revive him. So twenty years later, Ronald Siegel of UCLA decided to settle the debate by giving two elephants a dose similar to what Tusko received. Reportedly he had to sign an agreement promising to replace the animals in the event of their deaths.
Instead of injecting the elephants with LSD, Siegel mixed the drug into their water, and when it was administered in this way, the elephants not only survived but didn't seem too upset at all. They acted sluggish, rocked back and forth, and made some strange vocalizations such as chirping and squeaking, but within a few hours they were back to normal. However, Siegel noted that the dosage Tusko received may have exceeded some threshold of toxicity, so he couldn't rule out that LSD was the cause of his death. The controversy continues."
...Weird
Well that's just a myth, It actually can be done. Pound for pound the human body produces more heat than the sun.fluffybacon said:
Light is confined to C. As are a few other things. Gravitons. Also, the theories state, so braydon can be accelerated to the speed of light. It does not say anything about units traveling at the speed of light.Lukeje said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superbradyon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massless_particle
